Browsers can do anything. Right now I have a window open tracking my GTA:V delivery status, another that is listing cold-relief remedies *sneezes*, and a third with a video of a cat that I’m using to wipe away my snot-headed misery. If I didn’t have a browser, none of that information would be available to me and I’d be miserable. I also wouldn’t have my girlfriend. Something else that wouldn’t be available would be Silent Hunter Online, Ubisoft’s free-to-play sub sim based on their venerable series of tactical submersible combat in metal dongs. It was invite only for a while, but now it’s surfaced with an open beta.
I am sort of interested in this. I have lovely memories of the third game, where I ignored the theme and setting and pretended I was a shark. There were a few toggles that just let me get on with the business of shooting torpedoes, diving, and taking pretty screenshots. I have not so lovely memories of four and five: both arrived into my PC port with holes in their sides, water slushing in, and Cary Grant looking miserable. I understand they’ve largely been patched up by the fans, but isn’t that the developer’s duty? The fans can’t rescue this version if it scrapes along the bottom.

SHO won’t allow me to be a silly as the full games, with it focusing on the planning more than the 3D loveliness, but for those who enjoy plotting courses and waiting for hours, it’s waiting for you right now.

Indeed it was. I’ve never racked up more time on a single game – and that includes the Total War games. Over the years, I’ve had three copies. The only other game I’ve ever bothered to replace is Theme Hospital.

I wished they provided something a bit less meagre for an ending though. If I spent hundreds of hours on a massive war spanning U-boat campaign, I expect to see something beyond “game over – the war is finished” on the mission end screen. Hell, just a film clip of an occupied Berlin or something would do. And people complained about Mass Effect’s end?

I have fond memories of the third game as well, though I only ever sank about 4-5 ships in all my games. I sucked at it, is what I’m saying. I bought the 4th one when it came out as a Ubisoft Exclusive, but my first mission generated by the “dynamic campaign” plotted a waypoint somewhere in the middle of what was undoubtedly land. I kinda got annoyed at that and never went back.

My god, how can you be so insensitive? My grandfather died in a submarine and to this day my family still suffers, and you don’t see a single trigger warning in this article. All these bad memories coming back… thanks a lot, assholes.